February Winter Fireworks? Update 2/1/14
2/2/14 Update: Indian Lake ended up with 4 inches of dense snow last night. This should help tremendously! 🙂 January 2014 was the ultimate Jekyll & Hyde month. Take a look at how the temperature bounced up and down like lottery ping pong balls at the Indian Lake Dam: Take a look at the impressive […]
ilsnow.com does Tug Hill Ride III 1/30/14
This picture says a lot about the conditions we had in Tug Hill today! Damion was watching the Tug Hill snow all week and got today off work. A bunch of us joined him for “Blow Off Work Day” at the Indian Lake Town Garage parking lot early this morning: Crazy Cal, Mattie, Dale, Jeff, […]
Ride to Perkins Clearing & Speculator 1/28/14
Ridin’ Rich Lupia at Upstatesnow.com wanted the ilsnow.com tour of the Speculator area. I blew off work and embarked on the trip with a temperature of -3*F, and it didn’t get a whole lot warmer than that during the day. The Indian Lake village trails were groomed, but the low snow was not enough to […]
1/27/14 Trail Report
Indian Lake & Speculator area got 3-6 inches of fresh powder last night into Monday. Strong winds blew it around considerably though. This powder doesn’t do much for base building, but at least there is more loose snow for cooling and lube. D.R.A.G. of Speculator has been doing their utmost to keep their trails in […]
Trail Report 1/25/13
Indian Lake ended up with 2+ inches of fluff today. Cal went riding around Indian Lake village this afternoon and told me the trail riding was marginal. Straights were bony and snirty and the corners were extremely icy under the powder. He said the corners were like riding on a kevlar vest, even with studs […]